Apologies if this is a duplicate but I jut wrote a AIBU and it doesn't seem to have posted.
It's just myself and my 2yo in the house at the moment. I was fast asleep about 2 this morning when I heard 3 massive bangs on my back door - plastic part not glass part. It honestly sounded like someone was using a hammer.
I stayed in bed for 10 minutes absolutely petrified and finally get the courage to go as look out the windows so see if anyone wa there. Couldn't see anybody outside the front or back of my house.
Now my garden is very easy to get into, no side gate, just walk down the side of my house and you're there. It's far off the main road, so nobody just wandering past doing it for fun.
So should I phone the police or would they think I'm wasting their time? I just don't want to wake up in the morning and find out that someone else's house has actually been broken into.
AIBU?
WIBU to phone the police?
welshnat · 11/03/2014 02:37
I've just rung 101 and told them. I'm sure they thought I was a paranoid woman but they're sending a car to drive past and check for anything suspicious. I have elderly next door so don't want to chance it. Thanks for the kick up the bum I needed!
Now to lay here wide awake for the rest of the night 
lucky I've already had 4 hours sleep which is a lay in compared I some nights.
Just heard more noises the one night DS decides to not wake up I can't get a good nights sleep!
I've turned all of my downstairs lights on and jumped into bed with DS. Still wide awake and shaken up though.
If it happens again I will ring my uncle who lives one street away and ask him to come and have a look around outside. I want to look to see if there are any marks on the door but too scared to open it
Poor you OP. If it is someone trying to get in you have probably deterred them by turning on the lights. Is it windy where you are tonight, could the wind be blowing something against your door? Is there anything else that could have made the noise eg rubbish bins being knocked down?
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Not sure if the police drive by, couldn't have gotten out to look around my house because they didn't even ask for my house number.
Feeling a bit more calm now. Made myself a hot chocolate, and if I hear nothing else in the next half hour will try and get a bit more sleep.
Thank you all for distracting me, I think I would be sobbing in a corner if I didn't have you lot to talk to 
What! Okay, if this ever happens again, I think you have to tell them that they have to get out and look around the house.
But seems good that nothing's happened since. I'm glad you feel better. Hot chocolate sounds like a very very good idea
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